African erosion surface; a continental-scale synthesis of geomorphology, tectonics, and environmental change over the past 180 million years.

9780813712017

African erosion surface; a continental-scale synthesis of geomorphology, tectonics, and environmental change over the past 180 million years.

Burke, Kevin and Yanni Gunnell.

Geological Society of America

2008

66 pages

$45.00

Hardcover

Geological Society of America memoir; 201

QE635

Burke (geosciences, U. of Houston) and Gunnell (geography, U. Denis Diderot Paris 7) explain and illustrate how the surface of the continent has developed as a result of erosion following two episodes of the initiation of ocean floor accretion around Afro-Arabia about 180 and 125 million years ago. They also discuss how the topographic evolution reflects a unique tectonic identity. There is no index.

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